The child’s rights in the mother’s womb are rarely addressed in the pro-choice argument. The child is typically seen as a burden, or even worse, as something that is not human and therefore not deserving of human rights including the right to life

I’ve been to the March for Life seven times in Canada, and now twice in the United States. It’s always an amazing experience to be surrounded by thousands of other passionate pro-lifers, because I’m so used to feeling like I’m just one in a handful of people in my community who are actually bothered by this colossal human rights violation. It’s for this reason that the US March for Life has somewhat of a leg up on Canada’s; it’s just so much bigger, with so many more people, so this feeling of being a part of something so much larger than oneself is all the more intense.

There are two choices before us: The culture of life, in which life is always considered sacred and difficult circumstances are met with hope and genuine compassion, or the culture of death, in which people are valued insomuch as they can contribute something and difficult circumstances are met with hopelessness and defeat. The culture of life says that “life is always worthy of life,” while the culture of death conceives of times when, as the Nazis put it, there is “life unworthy of life.”

On May 29, Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi announced that he plans to create new legislation that will implement bubble zones around abortion facilities in Ontario. Naqvi, who is also the MPP for Ottawa Centre, represents the Liberal Party of Ontario and said that he intends to introduce a bill in the fall.

Bubble zones are areas around abortion clinics in which all pro-life demonstrators (peaceful or otherwise) are banned. These areas can also be referred to as injunctions because they can be put into place by the courts.